Sam Kemp wrote:

>John Dalmas asked:
>
>>Could it have been the old Prussian "Heil dir im Siegerkranz"?
>
>According to the sleeve of said LP....
>
>"...the themes...are cleverly interwoven to emerge as the splendidly
>intoned "Heil dir im Seigerkranz" - "Hail to thee the Victor's Laurels"
>which Weber originally -wrote- for his cantata "Battle and Victory"
>in 1815 and put to new use here."
>
>Not-so-old Prussian then?!

It's hard to say.  Weber wrote his cantata "Battle and Victory" (Kampf
und Sieg) following the Battle of Waterloo as a kind of celebratory piece,
where the good guys (the English) win out over the bad guys (the French),
and the theme in question is the ultimate paean for victory (similar to God
Save the Czar at the end of the 1812 Overture).  If these words were used
with the theme for the first time in Weber's cantata, then Sam is right.

John Dalmas
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